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Tribal Government & News Tribe appeals Cowlitz decision 12.31.2014 Dean Rhodes Federal Government WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde filed an appeal on Thursday, Dec. 18, of U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein’s ruling in favor of the Department of the Interior’s decision to take land into trust for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe near La Center, Wash. Rothstein’s decision was handed down on Friday, Dec. 12. The Cowlitz Tribe has been trying unsuccessfully since …

Gaming Tribe plans appeal of Cowlitz casino decision 12.12.2014 Dean Rhodes Gaming , Federal Government U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein ruled in favor of the Department of the Interior’s decision to take land into trust for a casino for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe near La Center, Wash., on Friday, Dec. 12. The Cowlitz Tribe has been trying unsuccessfully since 2002 to take approximately 152 acres into trust near La Center – about 15 miles north of the Portland/Vancouver …

Tribal sovereignty. These updates provide me with an opportunity to update you on some of the things Tribal Council has been working on and I hope you find this piece informative. NAFOA "Deal of the Year" Award In April, the Tribe received the "Deal of the Year" Award from the Native American Finance Officers Association for our investment in MicroGREEN Polymers, Inc. The award was presented to the Tribe at NAFOA's 32nd annual conference held in New Orleans, La. As most of you know, MicroGREEN …

influences the result. Take video poker for example. Professional gambler Dom LoRiggio owns Golden Touch in Las Vegas and teaches gaming seminars there and in Atlantic City, Memphis and Shreveport, La. He is considered one of the best professional gamblers, ranked eighth best ever by Listverse. LoRiggio, who is from New York City and has been a professional gambler for more than 40 years, says there really is a difference in the machines and players know it. LoRiggio says video poker machines …

into personal riches. On the contrary, today his art is pushing him out of his home. He lives in The Dalles in a house that was once the Columbia Gorge Gallery, showing and selling his photography and his books, together making up his American West Archives project. "I'm all too aware," he says, "that Edward Curtis, the now-famous photographer who photographed Tumulth's oldest daughter in the Gorge, died penniless in L.A." The gallery is now closed to the public and the backlog of his photography …

Culture MMIP walk honors missing and murdered 09.11.2025 Nicole Montesano Murdered and Missing Indigenous People Riley Freeman, 13, left, and Tribal member Fabian Quenelle participate in Ampkwa Advocacy’s 2025 Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Walk at Riverview Park in Independence Saturday, Aug. 30. (Photo by Michelle Alaimo) By Nicole Montesano Smoke Signals staff writer It has been 26 years since Leona LeClair Kinsey (Puyallup) of La Grande, Oregon, joined the legions …

Gaming Proposed Cowlitz casino receives legal setback 03.18.2013 Ron Karten Gaming , Federal government A proposed Cowlitz Tribal casino within 15 miles of the Portland metropolitan area received a significant legal setback on Wednesday, March 13, when U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein ordered the Department of the Interior to issue a new Record of Decision regarding its granting of a Cowlitz reservation near La Center, Wash. In her 12-page decision, Rothstein said …

Tribal Government & News Tribe, other entities oppose Cowlitz decision 02.11.2011 Ron Karten State government Smoke Signals editor The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1, asking that a U.S. Department of Interior decision to grant the Cowlitz Tribe reservation land near La Center, Wash., be vacated. In a separate lawsuit filed in the same court, Clark County, Wash., the city of Vancouver, Wash., Citizens Against Reservation …

was honored to be a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Del attended schools in Hoquiam, Wash., where he lived until he moved to Centralia, Wash., in 1986. He attended Centralia College and earned a degree in welding. He moved to Tacoma, Wash., in 1989 where he lived until returning to Aberdeen in 2007. Survivors include his daughter, Tarina Erickson, granddaughter, Samantha Tiffany, and grandson, Jayden Tiffany, of Elma, Wash.; sisters, twin sister Donna L. Erickson of McCleary …

Tribal Government & News Yesteryears -- Jan. 1, 2020 12.30.2019 Danielle Frost History 2015 – The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde filed an appeal of U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein’s ruling in favor of the Department of the Interior’s decision to take land into trust for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe near La Center, Wash. The Cowlitz Tribe had been trying since 2002 to take approximately 152 acres into trust near La Center so it could build a casino on that property. 2010 …